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HYDROGEN FUEL IS BACK IN THE ENERGY PICTURE
« on: Nov 12, 2018, 11:11 »
FROM GERMAN TRAINS TO SOUTH KOREAN BUSES, HYDROGEN FUEL IS BACK IN THE ENERGY PICTURE

https://ensia.com/features/hydrogen-fuel/DOE, Congress Recognize Nuclear’s Clean Uses Beyond Electricity

I read the article above and remembered an effort to build a reactor to produce hydrogen a number of years ago. I did not find an article on that project but did find a more recent one, the article below is dated May 2018. Maybe our energy future is not what many greenies think provided we can get over the Hindenburg effect on public thinking.


DOE, Congress Recognize Nuclear’s Clean Uses Beyond Electricity

[b]DOE Funds Research Into Nuclear-Sourced Hydrogen Production

Some of the more nontraditional uses of nuclear technology also were given attention last week. The U.S. Department of Energy's Fuel Cells Technology Office announced it would provide up to $3.5 million for hydrogen production research and development (R&D) using nuclear energy sources. Three projects will investigate using cheap, high-temperature heat from nuclear power plants in an extremely efficient process called high-temperature electrolysis (HTE) to extract hydrogen from steam.This process can potentially provide nuclear plants with an additional revenue stream, while the hydrogen could be used as a carbon-neutral fuel source in fuel cell vehicles to begin decarbonizing the transportation sector.Electric cars and other low-emission vehicles are beginning to make inroads into the U.S. market, with one in five Americans likely to buy an electric car as their next vehicle. Earlier this month, beer giant Anheuser-Busch announced it is ordering up to 800 hybrid fuel cell trucks from Nikola Motor Co. for its long-haul delivery fleet, starting in 2020.Nikola will provide a network of hydrogen refueling stations spanning more than 2,000 miles. While the company says it will generate the hydrogen at the filling stations using renewables, the cheapest and most carbon-neutral source would be nuclear-powered HTE, explains Everett Redmond, NEI’s senior technical advisor for new reactor and advanced technology.“This could be an emerging market for clean nuclear power, either from existing nuclear plants or in the longer term from co-located or nearby advanced reactors,”


https://nei.org/news/2018/doe-congress-recognize-nuclear-clean-uses
« Last Edit: Nov 12, 2018, 11:52 by Marlin »

 


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